The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
Opera is Gesamtkunstwerk
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Frank London - founding member of the Klezmatics and Frank London's All-Star Klezmer Brass Ensemble - explains why he decided to write a Yiddish opera and argues that opera is well suited for Yiddish.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Frank London.
This excerpt is in English.
Frank London was born in New York, New York in 1958.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
